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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once Alex and the unnamed narrator make it to Alex's apartment, they hear through what medium that "the storm would make landfall around 4:00 a.m." (20)?
(a) Newspaper.
(b) Television.
(c) Radio.
(d) Podcast.

2. How many years before narrative present did Noor's father die of a heart attack?
(a) 19.
(b) 3.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.

3. Noor tells the unnamed narrator that her late father had shared a "strong sense" of what kind of "identity" (99) with her?
(a) Cuban.
(b) Iranian.
(c) Chilean.
(d) Lebanese.

4. The distinguished female author and the unnamed narrator both order what dish?
(a) Foie gras.
(b) Scallops.
(c) Pheasant.
(d) Filet mignon.

5. From what country did Roberto originally hail?
(a) Venezuela.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Peru.
(d) San Salvador.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the scene of the first meeting of Hannah and the author comes to an end, what is included just prior to the page break?

2. How many hours in advance of the author's medical appointment must he call to choose a method of sedation?

3. How many months before the agent and the narrator's fancy dinner in Chelsea did the agent tell him she thought he could 'get a strong six-figure' advance based on a story" (3) he had written for the New Yorker?

4. In what city is the novel 10:04 set?

5. What color is the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital that has "the immediate effect of making" the unnamed narrator "feel ungainly, gangly in [his] paper gown" (5)?

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